60 Free Ads

Written by Jason Katzenback on November 23rd, 2007
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So the end of the year is in sight and we’re going to need a little nudge to achieve one of our personal goals. After having skyrocketed to fame, our hunger is still there and we’d like to start 2008 with four figures of RSS subscribers. Currently we’re still about 300 short and we need your help boys and girls. Obviously in today’s rotten capitalist society, nobody does anything for free anymore, and we’re willing to bet our udders that you bunch of money making blog reading sharks aren’t any different – even though this is the season of giving. But who cares, at least none of us are too shy to admit it right?

To keep things on-topic, we’ll be giving away free RSS feed ads every week till the end of this year. With a maximum of ten ads per post – per week, that’s about 60 lucky winners amongst yourselves! If we draw your blog, you’ll just have to give us the 180 chars tagline, anchortext and link URL you’d like to use, and we’ll be publishing you for free, the whole week long.

All we need from you is to leave a comment in this post if you’ve subscribed to our feed. We’ll randomly pick 10 bloggers at the end of the day and email them for a screenshot as proof. Once that’s confirmed, you’ll be published. To make our lives easier (why would you want to do that!), you could of course leave a comment with a link to the screenshot to save the hassle of us emailing you.

Everyone is welcome to participate in this little project, but if your name is Scot Smith, you’ll most likely get auto-disqualified :twisted:

And late happy thanks giving to all you US based fans, we’re glad you had turkey yesterday instead of beef!

(PS it seems our emails sometimes get stuck in people’s spamboxes, so here’s a friendly reminder for those of you that purchased the text link ads with us. If your name is on the screenshot below, please email us. Thank you!)

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92 Responses to “60 Free Ads”

  1. This is the second blog contest I’ve won, so I’m really excited. I guess I’m a good bit luckier online than off. Anyway, Mr. Cow was feeling very generous so, in the spirit of giving, he decided togive away 60 free ads.

  2. A couple of days ago, the popular, evil, money making cow – John Cow, started a little contest in his blog, giving away60 free 1 week advertisementsin his RSS feed (he gave a

  3. A couple of days ago, the popular, evil, money making cow – John Cow, started a little contest in his blog, giving away60 free 1 week advertisementsin his RSS feed (he gave a

  4. 60 Free AdsSo the end of the year is in sight and we’re going to need a little nudge to achieve one of our personal goals. After having skyrocketed to fame, our hunger is still there and we’d like to start 2008 with four figures of RSS subscribers. Currently

  5. A couple of days ago, the popular, evil, money making cow – John Cow, started a little contest in his blog, giving away60 free 1 week advertisementsin his RSS feed (he gave a

  6. chances of winning this random draw could possibly be slightly influenced if someone would leave a recommendation for us perhaps [IMG :twisted: ] In other ‘exciting’ bovine news; we’ve replaced the ten links of previous random winners of ourfree RSS advertisingcampaign (more free crap and we’ll be filing for bankruptcy soon [IMG :???: ] ) So to all that have been added to the RSS post footer as sponsors, congratulations! We hope that all of you will have a great new year ahead of you, and that we may all

  7. Neil Duckett says:

    Nice promo Cow, i`m sure you`ll get up over 1000 with this idea.

  8. Ad Tracker says:

    I’m in.

    Can you enter twice if you sign up for email feed also? :evil:

  9. Artur Kim says:

    Hey Cow, I’m in. (:

  10. Ray says:

    Screenshot

    Thank you very much for the valuable opportunity to get on JohnCow.com :grin:

  11. Matt Jones says:

    I’m not surprised you are still hungry given the number of stomaches you have :mrgreen: I’m in.

  12. MR-Gee says:

    I am in:
    http://i3.tinypic.com/6u8hu6t.png
    To save the hasle of emailing me, I am also providing my site info in case I win free ad.
    URL: http://mrgee.info
    Title: Blog of MR-Gee
    Description: Miscellaneous ramblings and useles advices of a blogger.

  13. I’m down with the contest..Here’s the feed reader screenshot.

  14. Mubin says:

    Already reading through iGoogle, let me know if you need a screenshot.

  15. Jack says:

    wow.. and still only 2 comments here?
    i’m so lucky then :)

  16. I’m “bought” and advertisement on your Entercard does that count :wink:

    I almost forgot the proof http://www.google.com/reader/shared/11889643290465715594

  17. Malin says:

    I have been a subscriber since this site started ;) If you need a screenshot from my Bloglines, let me know! :)

  18. Jamie Harrop says:

    Count me and my Opera feed reader in. :) Screenshot

  19. Steven Finch says:

    Hi Cow, I really like this idea. Im sure you will get a lot of people signing up!!

  20. Ruchir says:

    Count me in. Since I like your cow blog, I’ll post the extra details:

    Here’s the screenie: http://www.technomoney.net/images/cow.jpg

  21. browie says:

    Count me in. I’d like to give you a different link than my blog.

  22. You can now count on your greatest french reader. Screenshot here

    URL: http://blogger-au-bout-du-doigt.blogspot.com
    Title: Blogger au bout du doigt
    Description: Tips and tricks on Blogger blospot (french)

  23. karen says:

    I’m totally in! I’ve been trying to get on your EntreCard, but your dance card is always full when I have enough credits, and I don’t have enough credits when a (10 second) opening comes up.

    Here’s hoping you’ll be e-mailing for a screenshot! :mrgreen:

  24. Steven says:

    Count me in. Although I want you to advertise a different site than my personal blog if I win =]

  25. I’m just curious why you would be trying to raise your RSS like this. If a lot of people join just for the chance to win, then it seems like they are joining for the wrong reason. I want my RSS to go up because people want to read my blog and not because they just join for a while to win a contest.

    The only two reasons I can think of to raise the RSS in this manner (which I admit many sites do the same thing) is because you want to sell your blog in the future and/or the RSS makes a site look popular. But if the RSS is artificially raised like this then the site is being made to look more popular than it really is.

    Am I way off base?

  26. Well CashQuests pursued a similar line! It might be possible he wants to sell…

  27. bloggernoob says:

    you’re not selling are you?

  28. John Cow says:

    DayJobNuker: Is there such a thing as having real people signing up to your RSS for the wrong reason? The odds of them reading us after they signed up will increase significantly. Even though they might have subscribed just to get a free ad.

  29. Althaf Ahmed says:

    Greed is Good eh John?

  30. fatgadget says:

    Subscribed via email :)

    Cool idea Mr Moo :)

  31. Rhys says:

    Here’s mine :)

  32. Rhys says:

    Sorry

    http://fotorazor.com/images/38383johncow.jpg

    Incidentally, if Adsense Tracker wins I’m sure she’s a witch of some sort! :)

  33. what about if I already had your feed :(

  34. Israel says:

    I’m subscribed via rss. Let’s see if you pick me.

  35. ajacx says:

    that was a good idea.. Great !!!!

  36. D.C. says:

    Nice contest. I’m in! :)

  37. Gyutae Park says:

    Nice idea. I’d like to win this as well. Good luck with reaching that goal!

  38. Matthew says:

    I’m subscribed

  39. Mike Huang says:

    I registered, MILK MAN :)

    -Mike

  40. Javo says:

    Great! im subscribed to rss feed since a long time, im want to join:P :grin:

  41. ryan says:

    I am in. Just subscribed with Google Reader.

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  43. Jason says:

    Signed up with Google Reader… Thanks :mrgreen:

  44. MrPrizes.com says:

    Well Cow I’m not a blog but do show off your contests when you have them. I would love to be up for the feed placement. Have a good one!

    http://www.mrprizes.com/johncowrssscreenshot.gif

  45. I’m subscribed and I DID decide to save you the trouble. Here you are in my Google Reader, plain as day:

    http://superbloggingtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/thecows.PNG

    Hope you pick me. ;)

  46. Israel says:

    i just realized liek more than half of us here havent submitted a screen shot for proof. doh!

  47. bmunch says:

    Wow, it seems I am quite late into the game. Count me in for the free ads in your “milk”. If you want a screenshot of your “milk” that was delivered to me (don’t you know you own milk?)…tell me…

  48. bmunch says:

    ok I will just give you the proof of delivery for the milk.

    http://www.google.com/reader/shared/00876363309998752119

  49. ZAK says:

    Great idea. i am a regular visitor here and i love the way u come up with new things. Let me tell u its very encouraging for bloggers like me. subscribed to your feed

  50. shy guy says:

    Good Idea.. I must subscribe via your feed now

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  52. Excellent idea count me in.

  53. borzack says:

    Oh I want in! I want in!

    Screenshot

  54. [...] don’t you say anything about the idea right here?? I think he means this: http://www.johncow.com/60-free-ads/ John Cow is giving out free RSS ads if you subscribe to the feed… __________________ FREE [...]

  55. Mike says:

    I’m in too.

  56. Laura says:

    Here’s my screenshot. I’ve been subscribed since the beginning. :mrgreen:

  57. Lisa says:

    Duh, of course I’m subscribed. Milk does a body good!

  58. [...] to un-complicate things for ourselves today, we went ahead and picked the first ten winners of our free RSS ads campaign, which will run until the end of the year. By un-complicated, we mean that we grabbed the [...]

  59. [...] week the cow was feeling funky, so in a bid to increase his RSS subscribers he decided to give away plenty of free text link ads [...]

  60. [...] you have to do is leave a comment in there blog contest post here and subscribe to there RSS feed if you haven’t already. 10 Bloggers will be randomly picked [...]

  61. Mohit says:

    dear john
    my name mohit and i am from india . i hav recentaly join adsense and want to know how many website giv this opprtuinity. i hav join kontera by ur reffral . they will pay or not plz reply me i am waiting urs answer

  62. DAN says:

    I have just subscribed to your rss!!!!

  63. Indra Diky says:

    I’ll sign up to your rss

  64. I’ve signed up – if you win could you defer to a later slot?
    I have a reason :smile:

  65. knupNET says:

    I am in! Read your feed for a long time now. Love your site.

  66. Joe says:

    I’ve subscribed.. dont’ know if I commented before but doing this just to make sure…

  67. Pete says:

    Hi guys, I’m coming to this very late but I’ve subscribed to your feed. Makes for interesting reading :smile: Pete

  68. bhanu says:

    This web is only for sharing info

  69. ADY says:

    If it does working – I’m in man!!
    Good luck